We are pleased to announce the launch of the Economic Impact of Collections Loss project, to be delivered by London Economics Ltd. This project aims to address the limited evidence about the economic consequences when collections, collections data or systems become unavailable. tinyurl.com/2fzd8fat

CETAF is organising a webinar on how new genomic technologies are transforming the scientific potential of natural history collections. Talks will be given by Prof. Michael Hofreiter and Dr. Carola Greve. 18 November 2026 14-15.30h (CET) Do not forget to register!

#TDWG2026 presenting (virtually) this morning (local time in Oslo) on tool for automated transcription of digitized insect specimen labels - using machine learning to extract, transcribe + itemize data into Darwin Core fields - we call it Labellum - slides at @figshare.com doi.org/10.25573/dat...

We completed our mission! #TDWG2026 brought together the best minds in Biodiversity, Data Management, Digital Infrastructures and more Thanks #Oslo, 🇳🇴 and thanks to University of Oslo, Natural History Museum and GBIF.no for hosting us Next stop: #LivingData2027 at #Montreal, 🇨🇦 🔗 tdwg.link/2027

Summary of user feedback on future interfaces for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as part of workshop run at @tdwg.org #tdwg2026 forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/bhl-worksh...

BHL Workshop at TDWG 2026 feedback

Yesterday @bhl_nicole and I ran a workshop on “future interfaces for BHL” at the TDWG 2026 in Oslo. The workshop was “hands on” with live demos of various tools that I’ve posted here, such as the BHL ...

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New in FB2026_03! We have launched a beta release of #JBrowse2. All the data tracks you know and love in JBrowse are included in JBrowse2. The older JBrowse will continue to be available on FlyBase.org.

Are you a skilled and highly motivated Bioinformatics Developer looking for a new opportunity? Join the DECIPHER team - gain knowledge of clinical genomics and improved web development skills while creating tools to facilitate genomic medicine. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Finally restored upstream and downstream visualization of waterways in underfoot.rocks, using the National Hydrography Database.

Sometime tomorrow a big dataset, decades old, on some of the most economically important insects worldwide, will finish its migration to TaxonWorks, its curators are excited. Welcome ScaleNet, to your place beside the Universal Chalcidoidea Database, home of your mortal enemies. Fun shall be had.

The Species File Group will have a big presence at #TDWG2026 in Oslo, should be a wonderful time. Should be lots of opprotunities for discussions and on-the spot demos if folks are interested. Track Debbie or Matt down!

The Species File Group is happy to announce a new project, unifying smaller efforts that have been ongoing internally for the last decade plus. The Miscellaneous Insect Species File is available at misc.speciesfile.org. For all of you that love the fringe insects, this resource is for you!

Please remember, this Monday, 21 September Ramona Walls will present “From biodiversity data to knowledge in the age of AI: Where do ontologies and standards fit?” at #TDWG2026 plenary 🔗 tdwg.link/keynote-ramona #AIReadyData #Biodiversity #keynote #plenary

We’re thrilled to relaunch the GSBI website! 🍄 Our new look includes an updated website, our new logo, and refreshed information about who we are, what we do, and where we’re headed. 🌎 www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org #SoilBiodiversity #LivingSoils #SoilScience

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I’m delighted that @biodivlibrary.bsky.social will have a strong presence at #TDWG2026 in Oslo next week. I’ll be speaking in the mini-keynote session and hosting both our dedicated BHL symposium and (with @rdmpage.bsky.social) a hands-on BHL workshop. Hope to see you there! 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏 🔗 @tdwg.org

ICYMI: New online! Species-dense genomics through natural history collections

Species-dense genomics through natural history collections

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01011-8Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history collections should play a central role in building species-dense genomic resources, creating the foundation needed for comparative and predictive biodiversity genomics.

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From Greg Wilson in arXiv | Twelve Quick Tips for Managing IT Disasters in Small Research Software Teams | #Informatics #OpenScience #Research #IT #DisastersPlanning #NotYetAPLOSCBQT | 🖥️🧪🔥🔓 ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2608.27196

Twelve Quick Tips for Managing IT Disasters in Small Research Software Teams

In 2025, the US government launched an unprecedented series of attacks on its own scientific research groups. A year later GitHub dropped below 90% availability for the first time, while wildfires in ...

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In our new preprint we propose a way to measure and partition diversity by working directly on the distributions. If you wanna try this with your own data, we created functions for calculating diversity, partitioning it and visualizing distributions 📈 Check the functions: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo@castretis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Species’ traits, climatic niches or home ranges are naturally described as distributions in continuous spaces. In this new preprint we present a framework for measuring and partitioning diversity in these spaces using equivalent numbers and probability density functions doi.org/10.64898/202...

📦 We just released a new version (1.0.0) of our R package {camtraptor}, which you can use to explore & visualize camera trap datasets. 📸🦌 This long-awaited release supports Camtrap DP v1.0 and offers a step-by-step exploration workflow with new functions. #rstats 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/camtrap...

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We released a new version of our R package camtraptor.

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The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.

🐝 More than 1 million insect species have been described. Millions more may still be out there. Now imagine trying to sequence them. 🧬 From tiny amounts of DNA to wildly different genomes, insects present some of biodiversity genomics’ biggest challenges. #EarthBioGenomeProject #Insects #Genomics

How can Digital Sequence Information (DSI) databases remain open, sustainable, and globally connected while supporting benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information? - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?

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We're hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates either at the Assistant or Associate level. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested. Applications due October 15th! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Job at @nhm-london.bsky.social "We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist for a 12-month project to develop an AI-powered knowledge extraction and discovery platform for the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social ) jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Data Scientist - AI for BHL:South Kensington

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My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

Working on this today but am too easily distracted by maps and canoe routes. Assuming I can focus my energies, come join me and the iDigBio community next week as I take a look at what's happened in 6 years of running Bionomia off the side of my desk.

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My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The 2nd Galaxy Tool Development Workshop! Join us to learn how to build and publish your own tools for Galaxy; led by experienced Galaxy devs 📍 Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Freiburg 📅 2026-10-07 🔗 https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-10-07-tool-dev-workshop/ #UseGalaxy #EOSC #EuroScienceGateway

Looking for model organism resources to follow on Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for you! go.bsky.app/Npxsd7h

🧪 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 We analysed 3.78 million DNA barcodes from 152,891 Costa Rican insect species. Our results reveal limited community overlap across ecosystems, suggesting unique species assemblages in each life zone. doi.org/10.1139/gen-... @gdfcf.bsky.social @rpuschen.bsky.social 🧵

Five years back in Berlin #4a: Finding the small and mighty Most species are <5 mm. But small ≠ unimportant: ants outweigh all wild birds + mammals and spiders eat as much prey as humans meat/fish: ~400–800 Mt per /lyear. Meet EntoSieve for size sorting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...